Damn! This might be my favorite episode yet. Great adaption of the winter section here.
Lots of foreshadowing to Part 2 in this episode. The way David talked about how “a crazy man killed that young girl’s father” was a great nod to what’s coming. And the daughter wanting revenge. They’re really leaning into vengeance, the cycle of violence, and “what is justice?” Even David telling Ellie she has a “violent heart” is eye-opening. It’s making clear the overarching themes.
Scott Shephard found a really great balance of the eerie/predatory side of David paired with that calm demeanor that makes you understand why people look to him as a leader. His one-on-one conversation with Ellie in the jail cell was so so creepy.
They’ve slowly been building to it all season, but this episode finally reveals the extent of how brutal Joel can be. Next episode should kick it up another notch.
And my god—what a performance from Bella during the Steakhouse sequence. Absolutely brutal and heart wrenching.
Ahem, I'm no expert on human anatomy, but that doesn't seem like the optimal point of injection, Ellie :eyes:
After the rather disappointing seventh episode, I was delightfully taken aback by this episode. Ellie is finally given a chance to shine, facing formidable foes and making tough decisions while simultaneously exhibiting her bravery, resourcefulness, and vulnerability, which had me empathizing with her more than ever before.
I can’t help but wonder how much more impactful this episode could have been if it weren’t for the detour the series took in the previous episode. The show had been building up momentum, and the previous flashback episode was an unfortunate roadblock that broke the spell.
Ali Abbasi’s inaugural foray as a director on this show was a satisfying visual rendition; I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with the season finale. Hopefully, he delivers!
The standout performance, however, belongs to Scott Shepherd, whose portrayal of David was downright diabolical and unhinged, keeping me on the edge of my seat, wondering what malevolent machinations he had up his sleeve.
On the other hand, I’m still not completely sold on Joel’s portrayal in the show. He seems too vanilla and uninspiring for my taste.
“When We Are in Need” had its moments, but there were some serious fumbles. Personally, I find the game’s take on this chapter to be far superior to what we were served up on the show. Alas, my frustration stems from the writers’ obsession with telegraphing everything, a criticism I voiced in the last episode and, lo and behold, remains my chief complaint this time around. This habit diminishes the impact of certain scenes and hampers the audience’s engagement.
Nevertheless, this episode was a satisfying precursor to the upcoming season finale, which has me brimming with expectations. With just one episode remaining this season, the interminable wait for season two will surely be gruelling.
01x08 - When We Are in Need: 7.5/10 (Good, Slightly Flawed)
I must be watching a different show than all these 8-10 star rating people! This was the second-worst episode of the season. (the first being the last one, where all the pacing dissolved due to the overly drawn out flashback)
Ellie, knowing multiple armed men are after her and Joel proceeds to get on the horse and shout to them "Hey! I'm right here!" Then, obviously, the horse gets shot and she loses the one advantage she has over her enemies. Are you kidding me? No, she doesn't hide and pick them off one by one. No logic there whatsoever. Don't even get me started on the Preacher and his achingly recognizable desires, or the ridiculous 'locker' shenanigans that play out once she's captured. I couldn't have rolled my eyes more if I tried!
These writers are the laziest people I have ever seen! They should be ashamed. While I don't have any issue with the actors and their performances, why the heck don't they say "This doesn't make sense. Why is my character written this way?" At least we got an episode that shows a little of what Ellie can do by herself; that was the only saving grace here.
There are so many things blatantly wrong with this episode it makes me sad. I enjoyed the beginning of this series, but if it keeps going downhill this fast, I'm going to stop watching. Yes, this is apparently based on a game, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved and the writing can be pathetic.
Ellie made cannibal mcnuggets...
Not great, but all the good things this show does with the selection box of tired postapoc clichés it has at its disposal were done very well, and the performance from Ramsay was very impressive.
If you're not a game player though, it's all pretty dull most of the time. Can't wait to get the finale over with.
What a performance by Bella Ramsey! She has been amazing from episode one but, this episode she delivered everything!!
Tell them Ellie is the little girl that broke your F** finger!!!
BELLA F****** RAMSEY EVERYONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! EMMY SECURED
This creep deserved every single stabbing he got! motherf*****
This episode is the apotheosis of "No matter what's the problem, humans will always be the biggest problem to this World"
Another stellar episode. I was worried that this episode might feel rushed given that it was only 50 minutes and that there was a lot of stuff to cover from the game - but it really didn't feel rushed at all. Do I wish it could have been a little longer? Sure, but it didn't suffer at all from the time it did have.
The only thing I think I didn't like was how it ended. I much preferred how in the game, Joel got to Ellie as she was hacking away at David. I thought that was a much more powerful moment in the game than it was here, and it was nice that the game ended the scene there. I wasn't a big fan of how in the show, they made Ellie walk outside to meet Joel. I could have been fine with it had it ended with him embracing her, but the two of them getting up and walking off kinda ruined the moment for me. Still, a fantastic episode, and this is the best work that Bella Ramsay has done yet.
“It’s okay baby girl” :sob::sob::sob::sob::sob::sob::sob::sob::sob:
Bella Ramsey steals the episode with a phenomenal performance in the most intense and terrifying part of Ellie's journey so far. And that interrogation season, wow. I applaud them for following the game so closely with this episode yet making it unique too.
I haven’t played the video game, so I’m quite intrigued where the season finale will take us.
Off course religious nut job had to be a cannibal.
GOT actress is killing it. Intense episode. I feel like I’m with the two of them on this journey.
Good chapter. Again on the good way.
2 more eps…clickers pleeeeease :sob:
Where is the 11/10 rating button for this episode...:smirk:
Absolutly PHENOMENAL episode! Just WOW!
First good episode without zombies
Jeffrey Dahmer was a student over at Silverlake
Bella Ramsey was bloody amazing in this, love the show
Incredible from start to finish. Wow!!
What an actress!! Interesting that there's always a pastor with a twisted mind, isn't it?
I wasn't too sure about how I felt with Bella but boy did she win me over with those superb acting skills last two episodes. that kid is a hell of an actress! mostly this episode, mist have been absolutely draining emotionally to play those scenes and she absolutely nailed everything about it.
This episode was a masterpiece! Everything from start to finish was amazing, what a performance by Bella!
WHAT? Dude, keep watching 90 min Movies if you can’t comprehend exceptional character development!
One of my favorites of the season. The writing continued to be great and Bella Ramsey was top notch here. Loved the scenes with Joel as well, and that final line broke me yet again. The slow build as you discover just how sick and twisted David is, ending with the incredible set piece in the burning building and Ellie's explosion. Loved getting to see her on her own here and having to survive this situation without Joel, you can see just how much he's taught her and how capable of a survivor she is. I lovedddd how they didn't play into the typical trope of the strong protector saving the day. Ellie saves herself, but Joel saves her emotionally in that moment and is there for her after she's been broken. I'm not ready for this season to end, I could watch it forever.
Mad respect for Ellie & Bella Ramsey. Atta girl.
It was a bit too much but a good episode anyway.
Everybody is starving. Except for that horse. :joy:
Joel has become an apostate, but will attempt to reunite Mandalore with the Dark Saber.....oh wait I'm getting my Pedro Pascals confused.
Religious cults aren't fun kids. Especially when they're led by a cannibalist with anger issues. What a wack job. Glad Joel and Ellie f'ed them up!
i think this is my favourite episode so far bella, is incredible as ellie
holy f:asterisk_symbol:ck. what an episode.
This was much better filler episode compare to come of the previous episodes. Across all the episodes the acting, directing, and cinematography is absolutely amazing regardless of my opinion.
You either die Joel or you live long enough to see yourself become James.
Another great episode. And the “Baby girl” moment with a close up on Joel's broken watch. So simple, yet so powerful.
"IT'S OK, BABY GIRL. I GOT YOU." :sob::sob::sob:
Okay this really called Great adaptation! like literally everything about is totally Perfect, like they really made me afraid and took me back to moments of fear while playing this chapter,! ( although they made it shorter way than the game and could made in 2 episodes) but for real this was so good, details like his evil smile when he sit with her to when joel make them start to take about where they took here, they really acted so gooddd, so yup
great performance and Totally awesome and deserve the full mark, saddddddddddd that season one is about to finish:(
Raw and emotional, and deliciously tense from beginning to end. For the folks who think its "unbelievable" lol, is it really unbelievable? Well, the entire show is a work of fiction and requires you to suspend your disbelief, this episode is no different.
The song "Animal I Have Become" by Three Days Grace would be a fitting assessment for both the theme and evolution of character.
8/10 - for every time Ellie brought the cleaver down.
Wow! What an episode! Bella was great and it was nice seeing Troy Baker make a guest star appearance. Best episode so far.
Wow, fantastic episode. Not to spoiler anything but that ending scene- the shot singling out the watch- this show continues to surpass my high expectations.
Filler episode that added nothing to the story long-term. Meh.
Character A is incapacitated. Character B revives Character A just in time to save Character B from imprisonment. Yawn. Such amateur writing no wonder every episode gets reddit gold. This weeks mega villain eats meat. So he must die.
This was the first bad episode I saw. And it was not just a little bad but very bad, as laughable and bad as an SNL skit. The story is probably good but very badly executed. Everything was so unbelievable. I saw that the director has also directed the next episode, I'm expecting the worst for the finale. Very disappointed.
Spoilers:
Ellie discovering the human parts was so bad. The "jail" is right in front of where they make food and chop people? Also they have "accidentally" left a huge human part behind, and not just any part, an ear so it is recognizable? Give me a break.
Ellie instead of waiting to get out and show her true intentions, hurts the bad guy while she is still locked up?!
Nobody knows that they eat people, yet they put the dead bodies some place where it is easily accessible and people can find them?
The way Ellie treated the people the first time she saw them also illogical. And so many other stuff.
3 things needed to be achieved in this episode to ensure the success of the season finale and the build up to an epic season 2.
1) Ellie is the strong element on the equation, she is truly special and not a clever little girl. She is a natural leader and powerful women (super clear during the talk in the cell and when she grabs that cleaver, cleverly );
2)that Bella Ramsey can be adult, raw, fearless and agressive . Her face covered in blood, the knife cuts and the fire behind makes it very visual
3) and finally that the the relationship with Joel is of love and dependence. They would do anything to save the other. When they meet at the end we can see it in their eyes.
Thats why this simple episode needed an amazing performance and we got it. Truly incredible and remarkable with so many small references to the game and one HUGE one: Troy Baker :)
7 days counting to that episode on the hospital and the inevitable moment where we will see Abby for the 1st time.
(560-word review) I must've watched a different episode than most people. It was barely engaging; it may have been worse than the previous one. The majority must be your average viewer, aka people who haven't played/seen the games, although most of those who have played/seen the games are in the same boat regarding the outpouring of praise.
My reasoning for that assumption is that this episode seemed primed perfectly for the average viewer to where they'll love it: the focus on Ellie combined with doing well by herself without Joel's help, particular instances/scenes with her, David, the supposed tension, especially concerning David's character, etc.
Practically everyone's expressing high praises throughout the season/show, which I don't get. At least previous episodes weren't as much of a head-scratcher as to why people are, pardon my language, jerking it off. But this one, somehow, has squirmed its way into a tour de force for you? You may have Cordyceps. Unfortunately, I think you're screwed.
Most people are so impressed, and it almost feels performative because each episode didn't seem as good as they insist: this one, specifically. Every minute detail - sung from the rooftops with prideful, pretentious acclaim. What are you watching? More importantly, what are you smoking? With the general, exaggerated reception and individual, exaggerated reactions to each episode, you must be smoking something; you must've also smoked the most amount yet before watching this one. Is something in the water you're drinking?
For example, Bella Ramsey's acting in this episode: I can understand the praises if we're referring to the ending, although not to your extent; this at-the-top-of-one's-lungs acting isn't anywhere near as impressive and excellent as you believe.
Ironically, she's better during those moments, but everything in the middle has been practically mediocre for the most part. Nor is this talk about awards for her, whether overall or because of this episode's performance, remotely understandable.
Most of her performance in this episode was close to mediocre, like Ellie's first interaction with David; her acting in that scene was notably poor.
Scott Shepherd's performance was alright - probably the stand-out/one of the highlights, but nowhere near the extent some people feel about it, not by a long shot, falling apart a little bit by the end, including some of his dialogue.
More importantly, I wasn't feeling any tension regarding his character: whereas people (women, for the most part, I'd imagine, due to that scene at the end: unfortunately relatable, therefore a fantastic job/the most emotion invoked out of them by an acting performance ever) presumably got chills beyond belief, then topped by most people (not just women) thinking Scott's performance was the best thing they've ever seen; right behind Pedro Pascal's and Bella Ramsey's, of course.
It was enough, yet underwhelming.
I wasn't that interested in this episode. I thought it was the b-word. That's right. Boring. Freak out now, for I have said the forbidden word! I'm sure the words 'tense/tension' and 'creepy' will be commonly used words regarding it, but I wasn't feeling any of that. I didn't care about anything that was happening. In the beginning, as far as feelings and that sort of thing are concerned, it was different.
My interest and engagement, likely on a decline with each episode, are now seemingly on their last legs. Fitting, as there's only one left.
It’s ok not to make a show on zombies that it’s fulfilled just by zombie scenes. But we got like 20 minutes in 8 episodes: I think this isn’t enough, at all. Then tell me you are making a show about the relationship between a father that has lost his daughter and a girl that has never had a father. I would start watching it with a different idea. This is not ok.
However, this episode was pretty good and Bella Ramsey did her best interpretation so far.
Great episode, but (minor nitpick) they shouldn’t have had Bella go from crying to being perfectly fine and the two of them walking away (and towards a lake? They gonna swim in it or something?) at the end. Bella should’ve cried a tad longer so it didn’t seem to abrupt. She also didn’t cry “Joel” like in the game which stuck out to me.
Again, minor nitpicks but great overall.
Man that was tense! I totally see why Bella said there would be some divided opinions on this one because David was one sick guy. Like... not even the game went there haha. IMO though it worked pretty well, as it made me sympathize a little less with David here than in the game. Great episode and tense all the way through! Sad we're coming up on the finale but man... The hype is real haha. (Nice work here by Troy, did a great job!)
That was boring again, well, until the last 5 minutes or so but Ellie sure did fuck them up.
I was like 'is that Troy Baker?... No he doesn't look quite right' then he spoke and was unmistakably JOEL. Was quite jarring in some scenes to hear him!
Also I don't remember David attempting rape in the game. Added a whole extra dimension and reason to fuck him up.
What a performance by Ellie goddammit :fire::fire::fire::fire:
I'm surprised by the lack of manbabies calling Ellie "mAry sUe" because she beat a bigger man.
This was a great episode.
This episode was creepy and intense. It was not wild and in the last minute, it got phenomenal. I always have troubles crying in movies and series. And it wasn't even Ellie's outrage on the preacher, but that panic you could see and feel when Joel finally found her and held her close, and she was so terrified for what comes next. It were those 5 seconds that just overwhelmed me.
So refreshing to see a character that I'd consider smarter than myself, instead of the usual mindless beings. To distract them with her "infection" was brilliant.
10/10
All Gold
"It's Okay Baby Girl,
I Got You"
FCUK YEAH
The best episode of
the entire show
They knocked it Clean
out the fcuking Ball Park.
This is how you do it
to perfection, I was
on my PS5 playing this
part literally scene for
scene simultaneously
through this episode
and it was
frickin awesome,
what a penultimate episode
Wow and wow again,
then to have
Troy Baker
(Joel from the game)
in this
episode playing
James well that was
the icing on top of
the cake with a massive
cherry on top,
It just doesn't get any
better than that.
The way they took
this section of the game
and turned it into a
T.V Show episode was
Phenomenal and brilliantly
done,
and on that I will end
with the
Verdict:
FAN-FCUKING-TASTIC
(Let's Finish
What We Started)
HERE WE GO
Man, every puffed-up local mini-lord that tries to prey on the passing-through Joelorian and his charge just get destroyed, don't they?
Just when i thought he couldn't be worse he turned out worse. Although all the signs was there that he didn't care about the age.
Wonder if the ones that totally rejected him became food.
At least a happy moment when Joel calls Ellie for baby girl
Damn- well that was a doozy of an episode o.o
Bella’s finest performance on TLOU!! This episode was the closest adaptation of this segment in the game.
.....I had atleast 3 tears falling down my face at the end there....
I didnt "cry".... but I can't control the moisture coming from my eyes, unfortunately.
The episode I was waiting for!! MODO DIABLO ON
Bella Ramsey you will always be famous!
Bella Ramsey, Scott Shepherd and Troy Baker. Thank you for making this an awesome episode. Another home run in this season.
He called her baby girl! I think she's not 'cargo' anymore!
Ok, so far this is the worst transposition of a videogame to a TV series. This REMAINS a videogame, with pure and bare violence, what's the sense of all this shit? If I'd like to play a videogame, I turn on a PlayStation (that for the records I don't have) and slaughtered all the people I encountered in my way. And what about Joel? He was almost dead, and with a little pin prick he recovered in less than a few hours. The last of us is pure shit.
When Ellie and Joel went Berserker mode.
Was that (TV) Ellie's first kill? I remember watching the game, video game Ellie killed the guy in the basement of the hotel early in Pittsburgh, but other than the infected in the basement of the gas station, I don't remember TV Ellie killing someone yet.
Didn't think i would have to go through these feelings again. Heart racing when Ellie escapes and is waiting for the right opportunity to strike, or get struck. The insane kill she makes, what a performance btw, and the feeling of relief.
I've never played the games. This show is obviously high quality, but I'm starting to feel like I've seen this all before: humans are the real menace, not the infected. Yup, it's The Walking Dead all over again.
the tiktok edits are about to go crazy with pedro saying "it's okay baby girl, i got you" but in all seriousness, ellie deserves some peace and quiet for once. give bella all the damn awards :sob:
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I wish they'd skip this part of the game and come up with something better. Bella is doing an amazing job as always though.